Ward v. Harwood

Ed. F. McFaddin, Associate Justice.

The cause of this litigation is a tract of approximately 90 acres in, or on the banks of, the Arkansas River in Fort Smith. The appellants call the'tract “Slough Island”; and for convenience we will refer to it by that name, although one of the undecided questions is whether the land is in fact an island or an accretion. Another question, and the decisive one, is whether a 1901 enactment of the Arkansas Legislature was repealed by a 1917 enactment.

In 1962 appellants, Claude C. Ward and J. P. Hendricks, pursuant to statutory procedure, 1 obtained a deed from…